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September. Byram Park, Escrick Woods, Parlington Park, and 

 Stay nor Wood were investigated, the proprietors not only giving per- 

 mission to traverse their lands, but providing local guides to conduct 

 the party. These districts ought to have yielded great harvests of 

 autumn fungi, but the rain had been too recent after a long spell of 

 dry weather, and nowhere were the agarics found in " troops." Good 

 collections were made, however, and some very unusual plants were 

 found. Among these may be cited Q-easter jimbriatus, Hypochnus 

 isabellinus, and Polyporus giganteus, along with such micro-fungi 

 as Menispora ciliata and Arthrohotrys Gurreyi Berk., mistakenly 

 called Ctenomyces serratus Eidam. The President for the year, the 

 Rev. Dr. David Paul, gave an interesting address " On the Earlier 

 Study of Fungi in Britain." Other important communications were 

 made by Dr. Wager, Mr. A. D. Cotton, and Mr. J. Wlieldon. The 

 resignation of Mr. Carleton Rea from the positions of Secretary and 

 Treasurer, which he has held with so much acceptance for twenty-two 

 3^ears, necessitated a change in the conduct of the Society. Mr. Rea 

 consented to act as General Secretary and Editor. An Assistant 

 Editor and the Officers were appointed, and these, with the addition of 

 four elected members, were formed into a Council to carry on the 

 business of the Society. Dr. Wager was appointed President for 

 1919. The arrangements for the Selby foray had been left in the 

 hands of Mr. W. Cheesman, and the success of the meeting was due 

 to his forethought and care. — A. L. S. 



The Journal of Ecology for June contains papers "On the Rela- 

 tionships of some Associations of the Southern Pennines " by R. S. 

 Adamson ; " A Fox-covert Study " (in the parish- of Cadney-cum- 

 Howsham, N. Lincolnshire) by the Rev, E. Adrian Woodruffe- 

 Peacock ; " Cryptogamic Vegetation of the Sand-dunes of the West 

 Coast of England " by W. Watson ; and a continuation of the studies of 

 the " Ecology of the Vegetation of Breckland," Suffolk, by E. Pick- 

 worth Farrow. 



In" the Orchid Review for July- August, Mr. Rolfe has a paper 

 on " The British Marsh Orchises " in which the more recent litera- 

 ture concerning these puzzling plants is summed up. Mr. Rolfe re- 

 gards Orchis maculata, 0.latifolia,2i\\di O.incarnata as "thoroughly 

 distinct, though their natural limits have been obscured by the 

 camouflage of hybridity where they grow intermixed. To this we 

 attribute the confusion into which the group has fallen. All the 

 three possible combinations have been recognized in Britain — O. ma- 

 culata X latifolia=^ O. Braunii ; O. maculata x incarnata=:^0. am- 

 higtia ; and 0. latifolia x incarnata, usually called O. Ascheroniana, 

 though the point requires confirmation." The paper contains much 

 that is of special interest to British botanists, to whose attention we 

 commend it. 



The Trustees of the British Museum have issued the second 

 edition of Part I. of the Monograph of the British Lichens, by 

 Miss A. Lorrain Smith, which " covers the same ground as the first 

 edition by J. M. Crombie [published in 1894], but has been com- 

 pletely rewritten." We hope to publish an extended notice at an 

 early date. 



